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shallownessHome Fires 2.6
Although I dipped in and out of the BAFTAs (Wolf Hall rightly did well) on Sunday, I chose to watch this series finale live.
It took me ridiculously long to realise that the inspection of Steph’s farm was to do with Sarah’s deserter.
After the last few episodes, it was a relief that the show remembered Sarah and Nick nearly had an adulterous thing...at the start of this series. Most of the focus was on Theresa’s doubts about marrying Nick – as Flying Lady pointed out, she was running the risk of making two people miserable. But I think we also saw that Sarah still has the ability to get to Nick. I know that the deserter spoke to his commanding abilities, but he was very angry with her. Okay, she lied to his face – siding with Adam by framing it as What Would Adam do? – but he’s never got that passionate around Theresa in any way that we’ve seen. It doesn’t seem that how he appears before her or his respect for her mattered as much as they did with Sarah. My rebound theory was confirmed then. (If Adam had died offscreen so that these two could get together, I wouldn’t have been sad).
But despite the hesitation, Theresa said ‘I do’. And I shook my head. Because there’s drama and misery ahead.
A baby being born during a wedding is quite the cliché. Joyce decided some first aid training made her a midwife (a bit nasty of me when she was rather decent to Frances in her own way and sent Bryn out the front for the best of reasons.) I only really realised in a delayed fashion that Bryn was killed by the crashing plane. (OTT series ending, although given the bomb on top of the bomb shelter and the car crash, they had to go big. It also tied in nicely with the deserter’s fears and Jenny’s plotline. Plus Dsvid observing.) Should have seen it coming when Miriam sang her paean to her husband, but I was more interested in the women who were less happy in their marriages than her and Erica in that scene.
Ack. Miriam probably isn’t going to take it well, even thought setting up the support group locally was such a positive step. And David can’t take over the business – what will they do?
Despite the taken young girl who chatted him up, and despite Thomas, Laura’s bluntness towards David and his issues (and that it’s reciprocated) makes me ship them, slightly, despite the class issues.
I was glad that Pat finally stood up to Bob – you’d have thought someone else at the reception would have noticed she was making a scene. In between the melodrama, I got to make ‘but that’s a dead drop’ jokes about Pat and Marek’s method of exchanging notes. I half-expected someone to think they were guilty of espionage, but then I half-expected Bob’s book to be the pointed tale of the brave soldier he thinks he is, being betrayed by his dreadful wife and for that to have been how he let Pat know he knew.
Yay Spencer for standing up for an overworked Claire! Frances beginning to let Noah in was something, and though I felt that they’d contrived so hard to get to that point, the scene where Allison admitted she’d sort of known the parachute deal was dodgy and Frances felt it was One More Betrayal was well acted.
It’s only been a year since war broke out, this series could run and run...
Further to my last post I see that Feige is hoping to maybe intend to make a Black Widow movie in 2019 or some time like that. He and Marvel will only be a few years late...
Although I dipped in and out of the BAFTAs (Wolf Hall rightly did well) on Sunday, I chose to watch this series finale live.
It took me ridiculously long to realise that the inspection of Steph’s farm was to do with Sarah’s deserter.
After the last few episodes, it was a relief that the show remembered Sarah and Nick nearly had an adulterous thing...at the start of this series. Most of the focus was on Theresa’s doubts about marrying Nick – as Flying Lady pointed out, she was running the risk of making two people miserable. But I think we also saw that Sarah still has the ability to get to Nick. I know that the deserter spoke to his commanding abilities, but he was very angry with her. Okay, she lied to his face – siding with Adam by framing it as What Would Adam do? – but he’s never got that passionate around Theresa in any way that we’ve seen. It doesn’t seem that how he appears before her or his respect for her mattered as much as they did with Sarah. My rebound theory was confirmed then. (If Adam had died offscreen so that these two could get together, I wouldn’t have been sad).
But despite the hesitation, Theresa said ‘I do’. And I shook my head. Because there’s drama and misery ahead.
A baby being born during a wedding is quite the cliché. Joyce decided some first aid training made her a midwife (a bit nasty of me when she was rather decent to Frances in her own way and sent Bryn out the front for the best of reasons.) I only really realised in a delayed fashion that Bryn was killed by the crashing plane. (OTT series ending, although given the bomb on top of the bomb shelter and the car crash, they had to go big. It also tied in nicely with the deserter’s fears and Jenny’s plotline. Plus Dsvid observing.) Should have seen it coming when Miriam sang her paean to her husband, but I was more interested in the women who were less happy in their marriages than her and Erica in that scene.
Ack. Miriam probably isn’t going to take it well, even thought setting up the support group locally was such a positive step. And David can’t take over the business – what will they do?
Despite the taken young girl who chatted him up, and despite Thomas, Laura’s bluntness towards David and his issues (and that it’s reciprocated) makes me ship them, slightly, despite the class issues.
I was glad that Pat finally stood up to Bob – you’d have thought someone else at the reception would have noticed she was making a scene. In between the melodrama, I got to make ‘but that’s a dead drop’ jokes about Pat and Marek’s method of exchanging notes. I half-expected someone to think they were guilty of espionage, but then I half-expected Bob’s book to be the pointed tale of the brave soldier he thinks he is, being betrayed by his dreadful wife and for that to have been how he let Pat know he knew.
Yay Spencer for standing up for an overworked Claire! Frances beginning to let Noah in was something, and though I felt that they’d contrived so hard to get to that point, the scene where Allison admitted she’d sort of known the parachute deal was dodgy and Frances felt it was One More Betrayal was well acted.
It’s only been a year since war broke out, this series could run and run...
Further to my last post I see that Feige is hoping to maybe intend to make a Black Widow movie in 2019 or some time like that. He and Marvel will only be a few years late...
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Date: 2016-05-10 10:53 pm (UTC)I had really hoped she was going to say "No" during the wedding vows.
And we don't know for sure who was actually killed in the crash, unless I missed something (the ending I saw was when the rest of the town began to approach the wreckage and the house). I thought everyone in the house would've been killed, though it seems the baby managed to somehow survive. But really, that was a terrible way to end the series (unless it's been renewed?); it definitely went out with a literal bang.
Joyce has been extremely helpful and friendly this series, and I do like this new and improved version. Handing over Jenny's notebook to Frances was definitely a nice touch, as was bringing old toys for Noah to play with.
Laura and David would make a cute couple even though it does seem to be much more platonic than those scenes suggested.
I was glad that Pat finally stood up to Bob – you’d have thought someone else at the reception would have noticed she was making a scene.
Yes! How did no one else notice the loud voices between them and the obvious argument just by watching their movements? Or did people notice and were too 'polite' to intrude on their domestic issues? And I do think that Bob's book is about a couple where the wife is having an affair with a soldier. Who needs to deal with writer's block when he could just lift the drama from his own life?
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Date: 2016-05-15 05:52 pm (UTC)we don't know for sure who was actually killed in the crash, unless I missed something (the ending I saw was when the rest of the town began to approach the wreckage and the house).
This is true. All we could take in was some level of destruction and that the baby'd survived.
I haven't heard that it's been picked up for a third series, but I haven't heard that it's been cancelled either. It's been against stiff competition in this slot, and I don't know if a real hit just before it has helped its chances or not. I'm presuming it will come back until informed otherwise.
They had to do something else with Joyce if they were bringing her back, and showing a nicer side and delving deeper into her family life worked.
(But what if everyone except the baby had died, wouldn't that bring Laura and David together? Although it would be ridiculously OTT.)
It does seem strange when public opinion is a recurring theme in the show that all we got was a noted lack of reaction to Pat and Bob's argument.
I do think that Bob's book is about a couple where the wife is having an affair with a soldier.
It would be fun if Bob thought the cuckolded husband was the hero of his novel, but because it's so lifelike, the editor is sympathetic to the wife.